I'm involved in the search for QZ8501. It's safe to say that it's been found. Don't quote me, but the stall theory is the strongest we've got right now. And that article... is 100% bullshit. I could go through and comb through the insanity it says, but I'd rather not when I'm watching families wait ...

Most flights connecting Europe and Southeast Asia/Australia go through there, it's going to bottleneck the region. It's going to have a strong effect on air travel if we start closing off airspaces more preemptively when conflicts break out... Isn't that what normally happens? Flying through a war ...

Most flights connecting Europe and Southeast Asia/Australia go through there, it's going to bottleneck the region. It's going to have a strong effect on air travel if we start closing off airspaces more preemptively when conflicts break out...

TrueCrypt stops development . I find this really sad, because their offered alternative (encryption provided by the OS) doesn't really cover all the use cases of TrueCrypt. The paranoid are already worried that the NSA forced them to shut down so people would use other things with backdoors in them...

Most worrying is this: The caller could face multiple charges and may also be required to foot the bill for Tuesday’s police response, which is estimated at $100,000. Isn't that a classic example of the (very wrong) Eggshell skull doctrine ? I actually found this to be a pretty fair number. The FBI...

people don't accept it are dismissed as out of touch, old, square, not cool, and otherwise not a normal human with a normal sex drive. I understand this is a rant, but I'm curious about this bit. Is that really a thing? I think I can name more people I know who dismiss it (or at least are uninteres...

It's just easier to find the general area where it fell, deploy ships, locate it, and fetch it near the rest of the (also very useful to recover) wreckage. Making it float would make it much easier to toss around and get swept away by strong currents, potentially get damaged by passing boats or hitt...

There's also the issue that halal slaughter is allowed to ignore animal welfare standards (principally the requirement for stunning) so halal meat is cheaper I'd like to quickly clarify that this requirement is false (as far as the religion goes). Some "scholars" debate this (from both en...

Personally in my house if I heard weird sounds I'd remotely turn all the lights and electronics on, hole myself in my bedroom and remotely check to see if any doors were opened lately. I'm paranoid, but at least technology helps. -- Re: "research": http://mediamatters.org/static/images/ite...

Crimea-related, but it's funny, so whatever. "The farther their guesses were from Ukraine’s actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene with military force." Survey results of where people think Ukraine is: I think the people guessing Greenland and Canada had to be f***ing...

Crimea-related, but it's funny, so whatever. "The farther their guesses were from Ukraine’s actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene with military force." Survey results of where people think Ukraine is: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/files/2014/04/Ukrai...

So, they might have found the signal from the plane - it's been heard twice now. Mainly just posting so I can voice my amusement at the naval ship sent to find it from the UK being the HMS Echo. To triangulate the position, won't they need multiple ships in the area with synchronized atomic clocks ...

The Australians seem to be trying to take leverage from the bad press Malaysia's getting. Some Malaysians talk about if their government will continue the search after the beacon goes dark, Australia immediately picks it up and says they'll keep searching. People ask Malaysia why they're not keepin...

@PHP coders: Have you guys seen this ? It runs on the Hip Hop VM and can interact with PHP code, plus it's mostly backwards compatible with PHP source (there's a conversion tool available). It has gradual typing and is supposed to offer safer and more consistent ways of doing things. Personally, I ...

Would the court be able to demand the security camera footage (since it most definitely exists, and with high enough resolution to catch cheaters so it should be sufficient to get a good view of the man) and see how drunk he appears to be acting/talking? Why would a Court look at it? That is an Adu...

Some of the newer political debate ones amuse me. "And if I'm elected, I vow to win this war on christmas once and for all!" "Win?! Are you mad? You'll drive us towards mutually assured destruction - christmas is far too strong for us to face in battle!" "Christmas is a mena...

Would the court be able to demand the security camera footage (since it most definitely exists, and with high enough resolution to catch cheaters so it should be sufficient to get a good view of the man) and see how drunk he appears to be acting/talking?

The Australians seem to be trying to take leverage from the bad press Malaysia's getting. Some Malaysians talk about if their government will continue the search after the beacon goes dark, Australia immediately picks it up and says they'll keep searching. People ask Malaysia why they're not keeping...

ST, the red part of your avatar looks like a whale, swimming away from the camera, with its tail still sticking out of the water and its blowhole cartoonishly spurting water. The bottom line of the "I" is the horizon.

I... The idea of that being built for the purpose of filming a movie about an unrelated ship destroying a civilian airliner is both sensible enough to make just enough sense, while also being a plausible wink-wink-nudge-nudge-lol. And since it seems to be supported by Iranian media, then it's probab...

Thanks, going out further and building a more solid approach worked. I wish we had an alignment indicator, or some way to select the runway and do an instrument approach (or at least an Approach Lighting System, come on); it's really hard to visually see the runway from far enough (and even when it'...